http://me.eae.net The journal of Emil A Eklund Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:37:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Haven't even been able to live up to my anything-but-ambitious posting schedule lately - it's been over six months since my last post. What can I say, Google has kept my busy and a lot of things are going on. A few weeks ago I transferred to Google Switzerland and moved to ... http://me.eae.net/archive/2007/04/19/in-zurich/ A few months ago I accepted a job offer from Google. Starting next week I'll be working for them. For the last couple of months I've been busy finalizing my work at Basset, completing the projects I've been involved in and handing over my responsibilities. While Basset has been treating me ... http://me.eae.net/archive/2006/09/13/going-to-google/ Just got the following message from Craig Nuttall, the creator of SpellingCow, as a comment to my LiteSpellChecker post: Hello All. Right now I am spell checking this message as I type. I am the creator of SpellingCow ( http://www.spellingcow.com ). I would like to thank Emil for his hard work ... http://me.eae.net/archive/2006/09/05/spellingcow-followup/ Browsed slashdot earlier today, and saw a post about SpellingCow, a remotely hosted ajax spell checker. My initial reaction was "cool, someone picked up on my ajax spell checker idea and made something useful out of it". However as soon as I tried it I noticed a remarkable resemblance to the LiteSpellChecker ... http://me.eae.net/archive/2006/09/04/spellingcow/ Since I first started with IE Canvas the number one request has been printing support. The same applies to the successor, ExplorerCanvas and the WebFX Chart component. In fact about 90% of the mails I've received about these projects has been about printing. So a while ago I started to look into ... http://me.eae.net/archive/2006/08/28/printing-canvas/ Now this is great news; Apple's WebKit (the rendering component powering the Safari web browser) has been ported to Windows, complete with a browser called Swift. I doubt many will use it, at least for now, it's not quite as mature as the other offerings. However having another browser to ... http://me.eae.net/archive/2006/08/07/webkit-for-windows/ Been an amazing summer so far, and that's not not just by Swedish standards, with temperatures around 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) and clear skies. I'm having a hard time remember the last time the weather was this nice in June, usually Swedish summers are quite bad with temperatures ... http://me.eae.net/archive/2006/07/07/summer/ We've just announced a license change over at WebFX, replacing our commercial/non-commercial/gpl triple with the Apache Software License 2.0. Although most of the components available there are relatively old, the bulk of them from 2001/2002, some even older, I still believe some of them are relevant today. With this license change more ... http://me.eae.net/archive/2006/05/30/webfx-license-change/ About a year ago I wrote about Joel Spolsky's list of things that cannot be well done in web applications. Create a fast drawing program. Build a real-time spell checker with wavy red underlines. Warn users that they are going to lose their work if they hit the close box of the ... http://me.eae.net/archive/2006/05/29/the-list-one-year-later/ I've update the WebFX Chart widget to use the new, and superior, ExplorerCanvas IE Emulation layer instead of my old IECanvas one. I've also included the excellent jsgraphics painter implementation contributed by Ma Bingyao in the official version. This brings the number of painter implementations to three; canvas, svg and jsgraphics, although ... http://me.eae.net/archive/2006/04/16/chart-102/